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Newsletter of the Scottish Maps Forum V Issue 11 July 2007 CAIRT Newsletter of the Scottish Maps Forum In this issue: William Roy’s Military Survey of Scotland • William Roy’s Military (1747-55) - new website and book Survey This year it is exciting to report both a new website and a • Bartholomew Archive new facsimile publication of the Roy Map. The new Roy • Seminar review Military Survey website (www.nls.uk/maps/roy) is the • Map-related talks, result of collaboration between the British Library (BL) and exhibitions, publications the National Library of Scotland (NLS). The Roy map, and website news which is held in BL, was photographed as 35mm slides in _______________________ 1990, and scanned from these slides a decade later by SCRAN (Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network). SCOTTISH MAPS FORUM These images have been available on the SCRAN website The Forum was initiated by the National for several years (www.scran.ac.uk) as separate Library of Scotland in January 2002: To stimulate and to encourage multi- dissections. However finding a dissection and moving from one to another can be difficult. disciplinary map use, study and research, particularly relating to Scottish maps and mapmakers NLS wished to improve navigation across the sections and To disseminate information on Scottish to complement NLS’s existing website map images with maps and map collections Roy’s unique information. For conservation reasons, re- To record information on maps and photographing the original was not possible, so the images mapmaking, particularly in a Scottish are those taken from the 35mm slides (some 1,100 in total context of each dissection). To liaise with other groups and continued on page 7 individuals with map related interests To build on, and to continue, the work of Project Pont CAIRT The newsletter is issued twice a year. "Cairt" is Gaelic & 17th century Scots for map. For further information, or to be added to the mailing list, please contact: Scottish Maps Forum Map Library National Library of Scotland 33 Salisbury Place Edinburgh EH9 1SL Tel: 0131 623 3970 Fax: 0131 623 3971 E-mail: [email protected] ISSN 1477-4186 © 2007 NLS Editor: D. Webster Technical Editor: J. Parkerson Detail showing Dundee from Roy’s map. (By permission of the British Library). 1 EXHIBITIONS MAPPING MOUNTAINS: how the TEA & TIGERS: Stories of Highlands inspired science Scotland and South Asia 2007 is the centenary of the publication of the geological memoir of the Assynt area of Scotland, by Ben Peach and John Horne. In celebration there was a meeting of geologists in Ullapool during 12-19 May. Associated with this meeting is the ‘Mapping Mountains’ exhibition, which relates the fascinating story behind the geological mapping of Assynt and the pioneering work which revealed the process of mountain building. About 20 original and facsimile maps are on The exhibition venues are: display as part of this exhibition, which is on Ullapool: Macphail Centre, show at the National Library of Scotland, 14 May - 2 June George IV Bridge, Edinburgh from 30 Edinburgh: Our Dynamic Earth June- 5 Sept. 7 July–30 August Glasgow: Hunterian Museum The display is themed around the September. occupations of Scots In India, such as trader, missionary, engineer, mountaineer, But if you cannot visit the exhibition, full details teacher, doctor, or administrator. The maps of the maps and interpretative panels are on range from Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1815 (with their web pages at a fetching elephant cartouche), to cholera http://web.ges.gla.ac.uk/mappingmountains. maps in 1845, an unusual cloth map for Other information about the project is at visitors to the Delhi Durbar in 1911, and a http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/peachandhorne jigsaw map from the 1950s. Maps relating http://aragorn.leeds.ac.uk/assyntgeology to transport and communication include Post and Bangy Routes in 1838 (find out what FONN'S DUTHCHAS: LAND AND LEGACY bangy post was) a railway map, and a Some maps are included in this touring sequence of air charts following the route exhibition, celebrating aspects of Highland from Calais to Karachi about 1930. cultural life, past and present, prepared by the national institutions to celebrate the Year of Highland Culture. Edinburgh: National Museum of Scotland 29 June-2 September Stornoway: Museum nan Eilean 21 September – 1 December ARTIST IN RESIDENCE NLS, in partnership with Henzteeth, an Edinburgh-based business specialising in commercial writing, has received a Scottish Executive Arts and Business Award to sponsor an artist in residence. The artist, Catriona Taylor, has a particular interest in using maps for her inspiration, so was based in NLS Map Library in April-May. She will be working in her own studio over the summer and has plans to provide workshops around Scotland in collaboration with NLS education staff in the autumn, culminating in SBritish India in The illustrated atlas, and modern an exhibition in NLS in 2008. history of the world, edited by R. Montgomery Martin. London: John Tallis and Co., [1850-55] 2 UNLOCKING THE BARTHOLOMEW ARCHIVE The National Library of Scotland (NLS) is delighted to announce that the John R Murray Charitable Trust has offered funding of £220,000 over three years (2007-2010) to enable some of the Bartholomew Archive to become more accessible. The remarkable archive of the Bartholomew THE PRINTING RECORD contains specimens of mapmaking firm came to NLS in instalments over items printed by the firm, with a note of the date of many years, but particularly from 1985 when printing and the number of copies produced. control passed to HarperCollins (part of News These specimens are stuck into 177 albums from International) from Reader's Digest which had 1877 to the 1960s-70s, plus boxes to the 1980s. bought the firm in 1980. The largest part of the Over the past few years NLS conservation staff collection was handed over in 1995 when the have been able to repair and box about 3-4 Edinburgh operation moved to Bishopbriggs in volumes a year and at current rates it will take a Glasgow. further 25 years to complete the conservation. This new funding will enable two preservation staff This material is in several categories, some to be employed for 3 years, which should allow purchased, some donated or deposited: most, if not all of the volumes to be repaired. 1. The Manuscript Archive (donated) 2. The Printing Record (donated) In addition a curatorial assistant will be appointed, 3. Glass plate negatives (donated) also for 3 years, to prepare a list of the contents. 4. Copperplates (purchased) Listing the Printing Record is the key to the whole 5. The Printing Archive (donated) Archive, as it will enable other material to be 6. The Firm's Library (purchased) identified and dated more easily. 7. The John Bartholomew Collection - formerly known as the Bartholomew Family Collection – antiquarian atlases (donated) 8. Miscellaneous (donated) More information about the history of the firm and the contents of the Archive is in a leaflet produced by NLS, which is also on NLS website at www.nls.uk/collections/maps/collections/ bartholomew_archive.pdf (PDF: 4 pages; 1.46 Mb) The Archive is large, occupying well over 300 metres of shelf space and some 200 drawers, plus specialist storage for glass plate negatives and copperplates. Until recently the Library has not had resources to tackle the conservation, sorting and listing of the collection, apart from volunteer work by former Bartholomew staff, including John Bartholomew, and some part-time S Printing Record volumes before conservation. work by a retired member of NLS staff, and a Volumes in this condition cannot be used without modest amount of conservation by NLS staff. damage. This generous donation will be used in two ways: • to make the Printing Record accessible by conserving and listing it • to prepare a detailed estimate and plan for tackling the entire Archive, so that further funding bids may be made. A senior curator will be appointed for 8 months to survey the Archive and to prepare the plan. Printing Record after conservation X During conservation, the volumes are disbound, pages are flattened, cleaned and repaired and re-filed separately in two or three boxes, which are easier to handle. 3 Why is this collection so important? For over a The Archive has unexpected examples, ranging hundred years, Bartholomew was one of the from tickets for a Gladstone election address in world’s leading cartographers, internationally the Borders, private and company stationery, renowned for the quality of their work and their advertisements for beer and whisky, thread and innovation. carpet factories. There are railway posters and railway stationery - how many of us remember the The various editions of The Times Atlas of the notice on old trains ‘These racks are provided for World are accepted as models of the cartographic light articles only – they must not be used for art. Contour layer colouring (where graded colours heavy luggage’? Who would have thought that are applied between contours to indicate height) Bartholomew printed huge numbers of strips of was introduced in the late 1870s, and the firm these? refined colour shades so successfully that this method of depicting relief has been adopted Thus the Archive casts light on social history and worldwide. Thus the Archive is a unique record of contributes information about many other book cartographic development over more than 100 and map publishers. Illustrated here are a few years. items from the Archive to highlight the unusual range of items. Over the next few issues of Cairt, But, particularly before World War 1, Bartholomew we hope to feature other material from the was a jobbing printer, so did work for many collection. publishers and other purposes.
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